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...symbol of purity. Apart from the theocracy, most Iranians in and outside the country, irrespective of their religion, celebrate the ancient rites. The Tuesday-night event itself is known as Chaharshanbe Suri (literally "Wednesday Party," because dusk brings the new day in Iran) and was originally intended as a ritual to ward off evil spirits and negative energy collected in the previous year. That purification is done by leaping over a series of small bonfires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iran, a Street Demonstration That Both Sides Stay Away From | 3/16/2010 | See Source »

Grays Hall resident Shiya Wang ’13 proposed an alternative boat-sailing ritual that does not require presence on the Charles...

Author: By Tyler G. Hale, Sirui Li, and Keren E. Rohe, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Freshmen Rethink River Run Rituals | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

...queer community as opposed to a bunch of people entering a club to drink, hook up, whatever." However, unlike other forms of service, DJing puts you in an empowered, controlling relationship with those you are trying to help. "You’re sort of a shaman in a secular ritual to bring people to a place of ecstasy.” This moment, she elaborated, embodies the term “communitas,” or an “über-community feeling: [the] feeling of in a moment being boundaryless, being connected to everyone around...

Author: By Alexander E. Traub, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dutiful DJ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...ensemble work in the wind section stood out in the third movement, as in the symphony as a whole. Even in the dolorous intensity of the second movement, the emphasis on the starkness of the horns turned Beethoven’s exploration of grief into more of a public ritual of loss than an introverted sorrow—another interpretive move that helped the concert transcend the typical Beethoven performance...

Author: By Spencer B.L. Lenfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSO Plays Third and Fourth, Comes Out First | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...interesting that you use that word. It seems like there is a ritual, in a sense, to the way conversations play out. You identify stages that conversations go through. When people meet each other for the first or second time, there is a sort of architecture in their talk. People are tentative at first. There's a certain kind of greeting formula that takes place as things develop. People become aware of things in common. Sometimes it's meaningless, like they both spent a week in the Ukraine, or neither of them has ever seen a football game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conversation: Art or Skill? | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

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